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Understanding Climate Security Through Assets
“Climate security” has been discussed for several years, yet understanding of the term is not widespread and lacks a clear definition. Moreover, often it is used in a limited way, failing to encapsulate the broad sense in which climate change threatens security. ...
Remote Sensing Of Planet Earth – Part 3: Modis vs Sentinel-2
In the last blog post we looked into Sentinel-2 from the European Space Agency. In this one we introduce another optical imagery sensor, called Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). MODIS has some distinctively different properties from Sentinel-2:...
Decoding Climate Uncertainty
This talk was originally given by Mark Hodgson, Chief Business Officer at Cervest, for Agri-Tech-E’s webinar “Keeping a Sunny Outlook - De-risking Agriculture Through Weather-Tech” on 29th April 2020. Summary: An increasingly uncertain climate is impacting entire food...
The Alan Turing Institute teams up with Cervest to help predict climatic events in data scarce regions
Cutting edge methodology designed to allow communities and organisations around the world to understand and predict what is happening to the planet This machine learning framework is the first solution to create high resolution images of areas of land, by...
Introducing our new CPTO: engineer & mountaineer in one
Alex Rahin joined Cervest as Chief Product and Technology Officer in very unique circumstances, in the middle of a pandemic! That meant a completely remote onboarding process and meeting everyone else virtually. Here we’re introducing you to Alex and his thoughts on...
Remote sensing of Planet Earth – Part 2: Processing Sentinel-2 Optical Imagery
Illustrative image of an Earth observation satellite from the Sentinel-2 mission The first part of this series introduced Sentinel-2 as an optical imagery monitoring mission by Copernicus used at Cervest. This blog post will go into depth about Sentinel-2...
Meet one of our affiliated PhD students: Harrison Zhu, lover of coffee and statistics
Science is at the basis of what we do at Cervest: we are led by research, and driven by data. Scientific research improves with collaboration, which is why our science team is not working alone but strengthened through partnerships with research institutes and...
Remote sensing of Planet Earth – Part 1: Introduction to satellite imagery
Illustrative image of an Earth observation satellite from the Sentinel-2 mission At this very moment, there are thousands of artificial satellites orbiting Earth completing different tasks such as facilitating communication, providing GPS locations and taking...
A programme for scaleups that has style and substance: Tech Nation’s Applied AI programme
Thinking about putting your tech scaleup on a mentoring/accelerator programme? Cervest’s Chief Business Officer Mark Hodgson describes the advantages that came with being selected to join Tech Nation’s inaugural Applied AI programme....
What can “climate services” as a new market contribute to climate action?
Despite increasing awareness of its detrimental effects, climate change is still not integrated into many business processes. Making decisions in the face of increasing climate volatility requires in the first place a thorough understanding of...
Cervest @ the Met Office
Weather and climatic data are central to Cervest’s work, feeding into our models and constituting a critical dependency for asset-level risk signals on our open-access beta platform. A primary provider of such data is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather...
AI Ethics for Systemic Issues: A Structural Approach
Cervest Research Resident Agnes Schim van der Loeff explores the ethical implications of AI and systemic issues, and argues for the expansion of the AI ethics discourse to account for more complex risks. The original research paper will be presented at the 2019 NeurIPS conference.
